Quotes About Stillness

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Cuando uno se escapa a un desierto el silencio te grita en los oídos.

Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.

When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it's time to go home.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

Very carefully he thought about nothing.

The elevator brought them up slow and steady, giving them all time to reflect in silence.

Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia

And when the heart has in moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

There was silence, where so much sound had screamed.

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things.

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

Before you find a way to channel your emotional energy, you must take time to be still and actually feel. Meditation is a simple tool for becoming present.

I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic. If I'm not busy, I just get antsy. I've been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me.

For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness.

Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It's challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.

It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.